Following on from Monday’s announcement, Gov.UK have now published their four-step roadmap to ease restrictions across England and provide a route back to a more normal way of life. Each step will be assessed against four tests before restrictions ease, starting with the return of schools on 8 March. Our…
View PostOne thing that can be said for the past year is that it has completely changed our perception on the traditional “working life” and forced us all to utilise technology to its full potential to facilitate the remote working scenario. Whether it is an employee who is now stranded back in their home country due to travel…
View PostLooking After Your Wellbeing When Working from Home
We are now at a point where we have gained more than enough experience of working from home – to the point where many of us miss the office environment and the benefits it can offer. As we all endure our longest lockdown to date, it is also apparent that…
View PostUnravelling Unconscious Bias (Part Two)
In part two of unravelling unconscious bias, we look more specifically at different types of unconscious bias and ways to avoid them. 1. Similarity bias Think of your own organisation. Is there a typical background that a majority of employees share? Is the majority very sports-orientated? Have the majority attended…
View PostUnravelling Unconscious Bias (Part One)
As part of our series of blogs discussing diversity and inclusion, we take a two-part look at what unconscious bias is, and what we can do to mitigate it. Starting at the beginning – how does unconscious bias differ from bias? In simple terms, if we are intentionally biased, we…
View PostHow to Highlight Your Transferable Skills to Support a Career Change
How to Highlight Your Transferable Skills to Support a Career Change If you are one of the many people who are using the pandemic as an opportunity to change business support careers, you’ll want to ensure you can highlight any of your transferable skills, whether that be (and this is…
View PostHow to Make a Success of Your New Remote Job
Our clients are still recruiting office support roles in London throughout the latest lockdown. As a leading recruitment agency in London, we’ve gathered some top tips from our team to help you if you are among the fortunate, and growing, few who have secured a new remote office support role…
View PostHow to Make Your New Year’s Resolutions Work!
While it is tempting to dwell on the latest lockdown announcement (our view is to look through the lockdown, and to look forward to a time not too far away from now when pent up demand will see all parts of the economy bounce back strongly later this year) instead…
View PostThe New Points-Based Immigration System
Free movement between the UK and the EU will end on 31 December 2020. From 1 January 2021, anyone coming to work or study in the UK from anywhere in the world will need to apply through the points-based immigration system which offers new immigration routes treating EU and non-EU…
View PostThe Market Post-Brexit Brexit has been the most polarising topic in recent UK history, especially since the landmark referendum result on 23rd June 2016. This is hardly surprising given that the vote was split almost down the middle – 51.9% vs. 48.1% in favour of leaving the European Union. It…
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